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Originally posted by narcism So many cultures you could choose from aboriginal is quite complex to begin with and not sure you would have extensive literature on it like we do in oz.

Not THOSE aboriginals, lol.

At any rate...I do appreciate everyone's help, but as I said I'm going with one of the case studies from that link I posted.

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Originally posted by jennypie Not THOSE aboriginals, lol.

Why not they are very interesting

The paper isn't actually on the culture. It's on the application of Leininger's theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality to practice. We're just including the case study to help illustrate how a nurse would use the concepts of her theory when making decisions about care.

lulz nursing theory all goes out the window when you start working good luck with the paper

Yeah I'm well aware of that, but I still see its value and think I'll be a better nurse because of it. Plus I don't want to just stop after I get my bachelor's...I want to get my master's, so I might as well get used to this shit.

Do you guys have grad years?

Grad years? Like post grad? Yeah that's a master's degree.

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Originally posted by jennypie Grad years? Like post grad? Yeah that's a master's degree.

nah we have grad years which is when you are straight out of university the hospitals kind of sponsor you for a year and teach you everything that you missed while at uni

Nah, usually we get hired right after we're done our consolidation at whatever facility we did it at. They hire you on with a temp license and that's that. Conditional upon passing the RN exam, of course.

There are certain communities in remote areas of China (wish I had an exact name, I will ask the person who told me this story) who believe that an elderly person with a life-threatening illness should not be told about the severity of their condition. Rather, they believe that it is up to the younger generations to group together and support the ill person in question with a form of palliative care.

I believe this stems from the culture's core values of strength in community, where no person is seen as an individual, but rather as part of the collective.

The nurse I know was then faced with a personal dilemma because she firmly believed that the patient should be aware of his condition. Although the patient's children forbade her to tell their father that he had only months to live. fucked up shit. I honestly don't know what I would have done.

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

Some dance to remember ~ Some dance to forget

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Originally posted by jennypie Well...the fine details actually don't really matter for this paper. The focus is more about decisions I would make as a nurse that reflect integration of transcultural nursing theory; the scenario itself is not important or worth any marks.

Don't know if it helps but in Scottish culture "bothering the doctor" was and is a big issue. My grandma would need to be at deaths door to "bother the doctor" literally at one point she was out of her head with an infection asking him how he (the doctor) was.

My dad got my little brother to clean up the house for 2 hrs before the doctor came ... while he had gall stones.

You want extreme stuff western culture has plenty. And that's just the quickest examples I can think of.

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